(SALISBURY, MD) – Maryland State Police are investigating a trooper involved shooting that fatally wounded a man who may have struck or dragged a trooper with his car while trying to avoid further police investigation at the Salisbury Barrack tonight.
Details are few and are preliminary at this time. Maryland State Police investigators from the Homicide Unit and Criminal Enforcement Division are on the scene conducting the investigation. Crime scene technicians from the Forensic Sciences Division are processing the scene, which includes the front of the Salisbury Barrack and a segment of Rt. 13, requiring both north and southbound lanes to be closed. State Highway Administration personnel are on the scene and have arranged a detour.
The preliminary information indicates a man entered the Salisbury Barrack shortly before 8:30 p.m. tonight and asked the duty officer to check a vehicle repair he had made after receiving a safety equipment repair order. The duty officer went outside to the parking spaces in front of the barrack with the man.
Moments later, the duty officer called for assistance outside the barrack. Another trooper who had just left the barrack returned immediately to assist. At this time, it is believed both troopers fired their Department issued pistols.
The duty officer was found lying along the edge of the parking lot near the entrance to Rt. 13. He had sustained injuries consistent with being struck and/or dragged by a vehicle.
The man who had come to the barrack was found in his vehicle about 150 yards north of the barrack on Rt. 13. His vehicle had struck the center median guardrail on the northbound side of Rt. 13.
EMS personnel responded and transported the man and the duty officer to the Peninsula Regional Medical Center. The man was pronounced dead at the hospital. The duty officer is being treated for injuries.
State Police investigators are conducting interviews and preparing a search warrant. Their investigation will continue through the night.
Members of the Salisbury Police Department and the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene to assist. An assistant Wicomico County state’s attorney is on the scene for consultation with investigators. When this investigation is complete, it will be presented to the Wicomico County State’s Attorney for review.
Further information, including the identity of the deceased man, is expected to be provided tomorrow. The investigation is continuing.
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29 comments:
I was at the intersection when this happened! Heard two shots just after the northbound light turned green. I looked around at the drivers on either side of me and they seemed oblivious. I thought then that maybe it was just a backfire.
So how exactly could a trained police officer allow a simple inspection escalate to a murder? Sounds to me like he was forcing an issue unrelated to the inspection and was breaking the law.
It is time to disarm these mercenaries!
I guess you did hear about it
11:00pm, glad you or any passengers were not harmed or the oblivious people around you. Prayers to the officer and the suspect's family. Thanks to SBY News for breaking the story an hour before anyone else
Joe, can you change 11:49 from Anonymous to Idiot?
11:49 you are off the deep end. I am puzzled about the constant presence of states attorneys at active crime scenes however. Can someone explain this new trend, or is it not a new thing and was just never mentioned before?
imagine that, the Nazi's didn't find these crooks out along rt 50 with a radar gun! something must be terribly wrong!
Any crime involving a gun the SA is called into scene. Been that way for years.
SA has been called for years. Sounds like the a$$hole came in for a SERO, didn't like what he was told and jumped in his vehicle running over the trooper in the process.
Just thinning the herd.
the area involved is all on cameras. there is a camera in front of the barrack and the sha has a camera at the intersection so I am sure that they have seen both cameras. this should be a great investigation aide.
11:49 Can't fix stupid.
The idiot more likely came up to the barrack to have someone sign off on a SERO. The D.O. ran a license check on the driver and he came back wanted. He probable tried to get back into the car to run and the D.O. tried to stop him and was dragged by the bad guy. This caused the driver to get lead poisoning - which proved fatal.
What is SA mean?
What does SERO mean?
This is seriously weird. Hope all the final information backs up the need for the action of the officers involved.
11:49, people like this numb nuts is job security for police! Thank you!
I would like to know what happened.
9:17 AM While I liked your opinion at first it does not make sense that someone with an active warrant would voluntarily go to a police station unless they were turning themselves in.
What sounds suspicious is that this person went to the barracks on his own. If he was there to incite an altercation don't you think he would have been more prepared? Most people don't go into a known life and death situation with a crappy oldsmobile.
11:49 PM your point makes more sense than most.
11:49- Because every cop just wakes up before their shift thinking "I want to shoot someone for no good reason, no PC but just because I want to end my whole career, toss away my pension, get sued and put through court!" Sounds like you are mad because you don't know who your biological father is. Maybe you were not hugged enough as a kid. Maybe living in a busted ass trailer with a crack addicted mother has messed your mind up. Maybe you had that "special" uncle.
cops are not worried about ending their career, they get away with shooting people, and pets, every day.
9:48....who knows what exactly happened at the barracks, but to address your "ruined life" because a cop shot someone, you must be on drugs. Cops shoot unarmed CHILDREN, people sleeping in their bed, citizens walking down the street (a cop in P.G. county shot a guy on the sidewalk FROM HIS MOVING CAR), shoot people reaching for their wallet and shoot people IN THE BACK. They don't go to jail, they don't get reprimanded and suing them? A waste of time. They are exonerated at a rate of OVER 99% by police "investigative" units, the local D.A.'s and judges. Over 99%!! If THAT statistic alone doesn't alarm you, you need some remedial classes in statistics.
You seem to know a lot about, too, about how bad life is for some citizens. Did you grow up with no dad and a mom who couldn't pay the lot rent without some special 'favor' to the slumlord?
Some of you are complete morons! Noone, absolutely NOONE knows what they would do until they are in that situation. I'm sick of citizens commenting on how bad a job we do as police officers. You don't know what we go through and you won't until you walk in our shoes, but you don't because your not man or woman enough to do it. Don't talk about things you have no clue about. Great job to the officers involved and I'm glad they are safe!
10:38 I do have a clue that being a LEO is no where near as dangerous as you promote it to be. It is not in the top ten of the most dangerous jobs list.
The things you "go through" are things you usually impose on yourselves because of your personality disorders and poor training.
10:22 and 11:49 are right.
This incident may be justified, but I find it hard to believe a simple inspection review ended in this tragedy without the cop instigating it.
Didn't know that to be a real man or woman you have to be a law enforcement officer.
I guess you learn something new every day.
to all the kops on here, please please quit telling us how rough you have it! It's a free country and anytime you want to wake up and decide to do something more meaningful with your life besides pulling over working moms and dads and harassing them to generate revenue for the state, feel free to move on to something better! unfortunately your IQ nor your ego would allow such behavior so just keep serving your lords and masters!
At least they got him off the street for good.
Please speak soft words 11:30 and 11:39. You may have to eat them one day. Have you ever been in a situation where the police were needed? I know some situations local officers have been in, and it would scare you to death! You have NO IDEA what goes on in your "fair city". Did you know there are gangs right in town that have machine guns and weapons that only the military use? WAKE UP Salisbury! Get your heads out of the sand and put the strong and wise people in office to fight this mess!
12:33
If what you say about the gangs and the gun is true why is nothing being done about it? I have seen Joe post no press releases about these such things. Maybe they should worry more about the gangs and the military type guns than the people with a tail light out.
Looks like there could be two criminals to me. One dead, who will never be able to tell his side of the story, the "perf": and the officer(s) who may have executed him. If they caught up to him and just shot him to death, he/they should be prosecuted. Having a badge does NOT give a LEO a right to execute someone. I don't have any sympathy for the gangs at all: bloods, MS13s, Crips, and/or criminals who where badges.
"who where badges". Wow, what a brain trust talking here.
You don't have a job, but if you did, and in the act of doing your job some pothead decided that the best idea of the day would be to drag you along the road, curbs, signposts, and whatever else came along when you were wearing a gun, I'd like to hear you say that you would just let the guy continue to wipe you and your body off the side od the car without you pulling that gun.
Well, I guess with your IQ, you probably not remember the gun thing, and we would all be reading a different story this morning!
Go back down the basement, and try again another day.
Go back down the basement, and try again another day.
March 19, 2014 at 6:00 PM
did you take ur medicine yet
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